ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,489, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (Kawaguchi, Japan).
"Ionic solid" was invented by Takumi Konno (Toyonaka, Japan), Naoto Kuwamura (Toyonaka, Japan), Tatsuhiro Kojima (Toyonaka, Japan) and Nobuto Yoshinari (Toyonaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ionic solid having pores may be useful for incorporating a substance therein. Such an ionic solid may have pores for incorporating a substance therein. The pores may be formed by a crystal lattice of a metal complex. A hydrophilic substance having a molecular weight of 60 or larger may be included in the pores. The hydrophilic substance may...